Print Email Facebook Twitter Blockchain innovation and framing in the Netherlands Title Blockchain innovation and framing in the Netherlands: How a technological object turns into a ‘hyperobject’ Author Lagendijk, Arnoud (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Hillebrand, Bas (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen; Nyenrode Business Universiteit) Kalmar, E. (TU Delft Science Education and Communication) van Marion, I. (TU Delft Applied Sciences) van der Sanden, M.C.A. (TU Delft Science Education and Communication) Faculty Applied Sciences Date 2019 Abstract Blockchain emerged as a well-defined technological object with limited applicability applications (e.g. Bitcoin). Embraced by more and more ‘stakeholders’, Blockchain has turned into a bounty of possibilities and promises. This raises the question whether Blockchain is turning into an overextending, affective ‘hyperobject’. Adopting a post-ANT topological perspective, and using mixed-methods analysis, this paper traces Blockchain's recent developments in the Netherlands. A media analysis of newspaper items shows a telling divide between stakeholders (including incumbents) stressing Blockchain's radicalising prospects and those (notably involved knowledge and policy workers) warning of its overhyping and lack of governance capacities. A detailed analysis of strategies and operations of the key enabler, the Dutch Blockchain Coalition, reveals how much effort has gone into face-to-face encounters and communication to frame and script the object. Yet, this also causes Blockchain to proliferate in all kinds of directions, turning into a hyperobject beyond the reach of intellectual and practical grasp. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:d624b7c6-f8a1-4f80-be31-4d85e703a61a DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2019.101175 Embargo date 2021-09-06 ISSN 0160-791X Source Technology in Society, 59 Bibliographical note Accepted Author Manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2019 Arnoud Lagendijk, Bas Hillebrand, E. Kalmar, I. van Marion, M.C.A. van der Sanden Files PDF Blockchain_between_practi ... tprint.pdf 1.41 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:d624b7c6-f8a1-4f80-be31-4d85e703a61a/datastream/OBJ/view